Improvement in coffee-pots



UNITED y STATES PATENT QFFICEs LOUIS C. LOMER, 0F NEWYORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN COFFEE-POTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 172,462, dated January18, 1876; application led December 20, 1875.

ment relates particularly to the construction of the stand or pedestal,as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawing, A indicates the coffee-holding vessel provided withcover D. B is the bottom strainer, and C the top strainer, provided witha tube, b, which is slipped over the rod a, attached to part B. Theliquid cot't'ee is discharged through tube E when sufcient steam hasbeen formed in the upper portion ot the vessel A to force the Water downthrough the ground coffee placed between parts B C. The stand orpedestal F, upon which the vessel A is placed, has a concave topforreceiving the alcohol, which, on being lighted, Haines up around saidvessel, and quickly heats the.4

water contained therein. The stand F has semicircular hinged covers F',which are separately hinged at opposite sides of the stand. These coversare left open While` the alcohol is burning, and closed to extinguishthe Haine, and prevent, so far as practicable, evaporation of thealcohol. Each cover F has a notch in one of its ends to adapt it to fitaround the tube E.

What I claim is i The stand for coffee machines or pots, having the topconcavity andthe hinged seinicircular covers F', as shown and described.

LOUIS C. LOMER. Witnesses T. B. MosHER, i PAUL GOEPEL.

